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While the Billy Boils · Character

Selector

A generic selector character.

minor

First appearance: settling on the land

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With The Narrator (social): The Selector is a struggling farmer who interacts with the narrator as a neighbor or fellow battler on the land. In A Day on a Selection: The struggling farmer, engaged in futile labor and…

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Character Web

4 connections

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STSteelmanTNThe NarratorTHTom HopkinsMJMr. James Mitc…SESelector

Relationship types

  • Social
  • Other

Character groups

  • Minor and Named Bush Characters
  • Recurring Bush Archetypes
  • Protagonist
  • Eccentric Bush Characters

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Narrative arc

Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.

SetupAftermathClimax
  • Setup
  • Escalation
  • Breaking point
  • Aftermath
  • Closing

This is the story's dramatic climax because it presents the emotional and psychological nadir of the outcasts'…

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Relationships

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